John Sullivan, Revolutionary War General
Major General John Sullivan (1740–1795), a New Hampshire lawyer, commanded the American forces in a scorched-earth campaign against Mohawk Chief Joseph Brant and the Iroquois Nation and their British and loyalist allies along the Pennsylvania-New York border in 1779. His forces destroyed more than forty Iroquois villages.
Major General John Sullivan (1740–1795), a New Hampshire lawyer, commanded the American forces in a scorched-earth campaign against Mohawk Chief Joseph Brant and the Iroquois Nation and their British and loyalist allies along the Pennsylvania-New York border in 1779. His forces destroyed more than forty Iroquois villages.